Every once in a while, I tell you about how I play Lightfoot songs for my class. I always play WOTEF for my class when we talk about story telling and ballads. Inevitably, students ask me to play more throughout the semester. Last week I decided to play "Let It Ride" for my grade 12 class, just for fun. When I finished, a student said, "That was sick man." I replied "ya, I suppose it is. I guess you were listening to the lyrics." (I thought he was referring to the last verse which seems to suggest the songwriter made the rounds with a number of women). I thought that the student had listened to this and was making a social commentary. He immediately corrected me and said, "No man, I mean that was really good." "Oh," I said, "you mean good as in 'that was bad.'" He says "Ya, I liked it."
I was greatly relieved to find out he really enjoyed the song. It was also a lesson about how I'm losing touch with the vernacular (word usage) of the younger generation. Yikes! I think I'm getting old.
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